Hiawassee High School, also known as Hiawassee Academy, was a Baptist affiliated high school in Hiawassee, Georgia. It was co-ed and A.B. Greene was the principal from at least 1897 until 1909. It eventually became Hiawasee Junior College.
History The school opened in the Towns County Courthouse in 1887, just a year after the establishment of Young Harris College. It was a day school and boarding school maintained by the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Preacher George W. Truett was a founder (with his cousin and fellow preacher Fred McConnell), principal, and taught at the school before being recruited to move to Texas after speaking at a conference.
In 1921 enrollment was reported to be 127.
The school featured on a photo postcard.
The school band is included in a story in The Greats of Cuttercane playing as part of the festivities celebrating the debut of The Lone Biker and a visit by its star to Hiawassee as part of The Story of Felton Eugene Walker.
Alumni Homer Sutton (Hiawassee Junior College) Calvin Paris WilbanksGeorgia Official and Statistical Register
See also Towns County High School, the county's public high school Young Harris Institute, competing Methodist preparatory school that became Young Harris College
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